1. And so Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old. And he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2. And he did what was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, in accord with all that his father David had done.
3. In the first year and month of his reign, he opened the double doors of the house of the Lord, and he repaired them.